Welcome to the Plantation

The driveway turn off the highway - we're here!

I forgot how big it is!!! Yesterday, after we got here from the airport John took me on a tour in our John Deere Gator all over the place and showed me the mango tree he just discovered (with little baby mangos on it) and a, Jackfruit tree, even a tangerine tree to add to the list of things we have available to us! He showed me how the nut cracker works and I ate nuts fresh out of their shell. I took my first tumble on the nuts under the trees which are the same as walking on ball bearings (lava rocks are not fun to land on), picked up some passion fruit and pulled some onions in the garden... I could get used to this! There are so many boxes to unpack and arrangements to figure out, my mind is spinning... almost don't know where to start but think I'll tackle the kitchen first.
We went the 28 miles back into town and had plate lunch at Chubby's at the bowling alley and then did some grocery shopping and back home in time to see the sunset off of the lanai. I am planning to cook some Oven Kalua Pork using the leaves from one of the banana trees today! How cool is that? I added a recipe page to the blog and included this one. The link is at the bottom of the page!